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\bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:

/>Speaking of breeder reactors, why doesn't the U.S. have more of
\>them?

/Because they're too damn dangerous.

\Zack Sessions
/sessions@seq.uncwil.edu
\University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Alumnus)
/"Good health is merely the slowest form of dying."

Same reason we don't have automobiles, eh?

There isn't anything inherently dangerous about breeders. It's
just that there are a bunch of lobotomized idiots out there
who are more concerned with making policy than actually knowing
anything about nuclear physics.

Of course, these same people have prevailed upon the government
to ban nuclear fuel recycling. I had a hard time trying to
convince a friend of my dad's the other day that there was a
solution to the nuclear waste problem, and the gubbimint, "will
ofthepeeble" (or the feeble minded) had _banned_ a way to reduce
the "dangerousawfulearthdestroyingnucularwaste" problem by a
couple orders of magnitude.

-- 
Phil Fraering
"...drag them, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat."
<<- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
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